Meet Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus’s Snake Academy Team

Famitsu has the scoop on the Secret Standing Snake school girls, which has two "big sister" ninja types. Miyabi and Imu are much older than the average ninja in Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus. Both characters were involved in an accident that left Miyabi without her memories and Imu hospitalized for a year.

Miyabi – a third year student in the Secret Standing Snake school who lost her memory during an accident in a mission.

really? i mean, it looks great but compare to other vita games it’s not that amazing. what interest me the most it’s the characters (specially the bounciness), gameplay, and how this game is taylor for the vita (seen how this game is a spinoff from the game that started on the 3ds). oh! and did i mention how i like the bouciness!?, i’m looking forward to touching my vita screen (both front and back).

Tianyu Wei

At least the character models… It seem to used an enhanced 3D Custom Girls engine. A lot more anti-aliasing and better shading and shadows than the stock 3D Custom Girls.

xavier axol

you might be right, i was basing my comment from the video they released and may be i wasn’t pay attention.

ShawnOtakuSomething

Miyabi AND Murasaki …………… <3

Muffum

So why is Miyabi’s amnesia such a major character trait/plot point that it warrants mentioning? If Imu was such a close friend, in the same accident, and DIDN’T lose her memory, wouldn’t she just be able to recount everything to Miyabi, and bam, plot resolved?

This is assuming, of course, the amnesia is just used for a “Who am I? What was I doing?” type plot. If it’s taken in a completely different direction, we’ll just have to see how it unfolds.

Even if Imu does tell her what happened, it doesn’t mean that Miyabi will actually remember herself.

ShinobiMuramasa

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I dont’ think localization is really necessary if it continues on the VITA since it’s region free… these games aren’t even dialogue heavy… it’s fan service + action… easily enjoyable if you watched enough Anime and learned a phrase or two like “baka” “ecchI” etc.

The only thing you are gonna get in Localization is a butchered censored version I can guarantee it 100%. And then you guys are gonna cry foul.

Shadowman

They look so awesome!!

British_Otaku

So there are four schools now…
20 playable characters between them.

>_>

Shame, I probably won’t get to see any of them in the coming anime.
On topic, I haven’t got a Vita… I may be preordering this game.
Feels a bit more rational to type things like that when the system is region free.

Sometimes I don’t understood why they teases us with games that will never be able to play

Mrgrgr and Unacceptable World

“will never be able to play”

YOu never heard word import there?

Christopher Nunes

It’s more along the lines of playing a localized version of this… usually you don’t get away with such games in the US, let alone niche titles like this one. There are exceptions but in today’s market if it isn’t a big time name of a long-lasting series it has little chance of coming over and even still doesn’t guarantee the game will be localized.

Tianyu Wei

not entirely true. We have a lot of niche titles even on PSP from GUST/NIS/CH/IF. The only thing in consideration is Return vs Cost. Usually these niche game are low cost, so even if it doesn’t sell blockbuster, it’ll still be “worthwhile” to test the water and gather a fan base. Though it does require a lot of work.

Especially Risque titles like this usually get butchered in Localization. It’s usually ESRB/Fear of Public Backlash that stops this type of games from coming over. This game is easily ESRB M, and maybe even AO if there are a lot of “moralists” on the review board.